Quotes About Art

I actually no longer use 'art' as the framing device. I think I'm just kind of practicing things, practicing life, practicing creation.

I've been practicing ballet since I was three years old.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

If you are a musician, you practise your instrument every day, but actors can't be on a set every day. Theatre is a way for me to keep practising my art form.

Coaching is definitely different. I've got the knowledge but it's about communicating that to others in a manner they can understand. There's an art to that and the more you practise, the better you get.

'Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the essence of design, because design has some sort of art in it and creation, but it's also some object that you have to use. There is also this pragmatic end to it.

My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic.

I'm interested in light. It's a very direct, pragmatic, American, rather naive approach.

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.

I'm a big believer in building a crew. Movies are the most collaborative art form at the tend of the world, and it takes hundreds of people to make one. At the end of the day, I get the lion's share of praise or blame but everybody on the ground knows that it was all of us.

We're trying to elevate humanity and not preach to humanity in the way we approach our art. We're always just trying to get a good party going.

I will preach with my brush.

Those who preach in rap, don't make no money.

Literature precedes genre.

The world of sculpture precedes by many years the world of architecture.

John Lennon made wonderful music, which people listen to as music. Nobody around the world is living their life according to the precepts of John Lennon.

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

Some scripts you feel like everything is precious.

The more everything gets digitalised, the more precious the live experience of going to the theatre is.

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.